dunk

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dunk [dunk dunks dunked dunking] BrE [dʌŋk] NAmE [dʌŋk] verb
1. transitive ~ sth (in/into sth) to put food quickly into liquid before eating it
•She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.
2. transitive ~ sb/sth (especially NAmE)to push sb underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put sth into water
•The camera survived being dunked in the river.
3. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) (in ↑basketball)to jump very high and put the ball through the ↑basket with great force from above
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Word Origin:
early 20th cent.: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dunk shot, stuff shot, dip, souse, plunge, douse